Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the first Goodyear Blimp stadium shot. Of course, they didn't know then how popular the shots would become. I guess these dirigibles continue to surprise.

I recall driving somewhere while a few colorful dirigibles were flying nearby. I felt like a motorboat (stinkpots, we called them growing up) among yachts with their spinnakers unfurled.

I also just played, for the umpteenth time, Edward R. Morrow's "I Can Hear It Now," a two-album recording of U.S. history from 1919 to 1945. It includes the famous broadcast of the Hindenburg fire in New Jersey. These airships really capture the imagination.